rob-ART morgan over at Bare Feats received an eight-core Mac Pro last night (lucky guy) and ran some interesting and exhaustive benchmarks on it. One of the benchmarks he used was Geekbench 2, and he was nice enough to submit the results to the Geekbench Browser.
I thought it might be interesting to take a quick look at his results from his eight-core Mac Pro and compare them against a four-core Mac Pro. Here are the overall scores for both machines, along with scores for each benchmark section:
Overall Performance
| Mac Pro Intel Quad-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz |
8735 | |
| Mac Pro Intel Dual-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz |
5763 |
Integer Performance
| Mac Pro Intel Quad-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz |
8977 | |
| Mac Pro Intel Dual-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz |
5642 |
Floating Point Performance
| Mac Pro Intel Quad-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz |
14158 | |
| Mac Pro Intel Dual-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz |
8923 |
Memory Performance
| Mac Pro Intel Quad-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz |
2281 | |
| Mac Pro Intel Dual-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz |
2363 |
Stream Performance
| Mac Pro Intel Quad-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz |
1822 | |
| Mac Pro Intel Dual-Core Xeon @ 3.00GHz |
1932 |
If you really want to drill down into the benchmark-by-benchmark differences between the two Mac Pros, you can look at a detailed comparison between the two over on the Geekbench Browser. For most tests, the eight-core Mac Pro is as fast as the four-core Mac Pro on the single-threaded tests, but almost twice as fast as the four-core Mac Pro on the multi-threaded tests.
In other words, if you’ve got applications that’ll take advantage of the eight cores the high-end Mac Pro now offers, it’s going to fly!